ACT NOW

20 days of Activism

We're not keeping quiet to violence against women and children any longer! We're rising up and you can too. Do your part to show your support for the movement and demand an end to violence against women and children today. Join the 20 Days of Activism challenge and see how you can make a difference every day. Take a pledge, make a noise... Strike! Dance! Rise!

VOICE AGAINST VIOLENCE

Eve Ensler

This is the turning point for India and I am very encouraged that the campaign ‘1 Billion Rising’ is happening at the right time. Real change is the need of the hour and that is exactly what the movement aims at doing – strike, dance and rise!

DJ Pearl

I think the message needs to be loud and clear that we do not condone any of this anymore. The government needs to take a stand and bring these people to justice swiftly.

Madhuri Banerjee, author

I am totally against violence of any kind especially against women and children. I raise my voice on any social media platform I can to help create awareness.

Deepika Padukone, actor

India may have become modern, but women here are still considered weak. We should definitely learn self-defense techniques such as karate to safeguard ourselves.

Sona Mohapatra, musician

We need stronger legislation to combat the rise in crimes against women because our current laws are far too lenient. For a society, safety of women is the bedrock for any kind of real progress.

Tisca Chopra

The strongest deterrent for crimes against women will be an expedited judicial trial and severe public punishment; perpetrators need to be socially denounced and seen for the cowards they are. Women's groups must lobby for a law for the strongest punishment.

Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal

The first and foremost thing we must do is mobilise ourselves into groups and arm ourselves. Apart from drastic changes in the judiciary and police, we must start talking about changing mindsets which is certainly a great solution, but will take another hundred years.

Rahul Bose

The first and last thing we have to do starting today, is to raise our boys to respect girls. To make them share equally in school, to set gender-equal examples at home. To raise our daughters to be sons, and our sons to be daughters.

Vasuda Sharma, musician

It breaks my heart and makes me extremely angry whenever I hear about an incident. I think all those who harm women should be punished severely.